The Red Room

All week long I've been painting my bedroom. I've been painting it RED. If you've never painted red before, let me just tell you, it's the hardest color EVER. It's so hard to get good coverage. I've painted navy blue before, and that covers in one coat. I've painted beige, tan, purple, light blue, all of those cover in one coat. I have now painted two master bedrooms and an accent fireplace wall, and red just doesn't cover without more than one coat. I've even primed with tinted primer on two of those jobs, and it ALWAYS requires more than one coat to get decent coverage. Even after 2 coats, it looks like another would be better, but I'm just so out of patience with the project that I'm calling it good enough, and done.

To say that it's taken me all week is really no exaggeration. I painted all day Monday, took a break Tuesday for dance class and my hair appointment (more on that in a minute), painted all day Wednesday, and then half the day on Thursday and Friday. I'm so sick of my hands, feet, arms and legs being covered in paint and/or primer. I'm also sore from getting down on the floor and back up a bagillion times. Seriously, my quads are killing me. That may also be a product of the furniture moving I've done this week too. I had Hubby help move the bed, but I did the dresser all alone. I had to get on the floor and push it with my feet. I couldn't lift it. As Dwight Shrute would say, that's the problem with women- weak arms.

I do feel kinda powerful when I'm at the end of a big project. I have something to look at a think, I did that. I have a whole folder of pictures on my Facebook profile dedicated to all the projects I've done in the last two or three years. My home's transformation has been well documented. It makes me a little sad that I didn't keep track of all the things I did to our last house, especially since Little Girl doesn't really remember that house. We moved when she was only 2 years old.

The RED room was a much bigger project than I anticipated. The last time I painted a room red, I had many friends help me. My best painting buddy and I painted 4 rooms together in my last house, and 4 rooms together in her houses (I've painted in 3 different houses of hers over the years), plus wallpaper removal. She's the friend I took the girls to visit last week out of town. I miss her so much, especially when there's work like this that we would be sharing if she were still here. *Sniff, sniff*

Anyway, red is finally painted. That's one coat of primer, and two coats of paint on all the walls in the biggest room I've ever painted. (I'm sitting her with my computer on my lap, still in my painting clothes, with red paint splatter all over my right arm.) Major sigh...

About the hair, it's been several days since the new cut, and yesterday I tried the wavy hair look. I think I must have the wrong products for it, because it looked OK at first, but then it just looked messy by the end of the day. I still haven't had a chance to really fix it straight, but I think it'll be OK. It's not been the best week to judge a new haircut, as I've been tying it up in a ponytail to work for the three days since getting it cut.

The song in my head for the last several days is "Keep Fishin," by Weezer. The girls have been into watching a DVD of the Muppet Show lately, and Hubby showed them this video, since they now have an appreciation for it. So good. Very catchy. It'll definitely stick with ya!

*** UPDATE - Saturday, July 17 ***

This morning while Hubby was mowing the yard, I moved the BED back into place ALL BY MYSELF!! It's not that he wouldn't have helped me, it's just that I was impatient and didn't want to wait for him to get finished, and then get himself cleaned up. I am woman. I am strong. Don't worry, I'm not going to roar!